Gianluigi Lentini
| Gianluigi Lentini | ||
 Gianluigi Lentini (1992)
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| Personnel | ||
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| birthday | March 27, 1969 | |
| place of birth | Carmagnola , Italy | |
| size | 183 cm | |
| position | Right winger | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1986-1992 | Torino Calcio | 111 (16) |
| 1988-1989 | → Ancona Calcio (loan) | 37 (4) |
| 1992-1996 | AC Milan | 63 (13) |
| 1996-1997 | Atalanta Bergamo | 31 (4) |
| 1997-2000 | Torino Calcio | 93 (6) |
| 2001-2004 | Cosenza Calcio 1914 | 84 (9) |
| 2004-2007 | AS Canelli | 74 (37) |
| 2008-2009 | US Saviglianese | 30 (15) |
| 2009-2011 | AC Nicese | |
| 2011–2012 | CSF Carmagnola | |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1991-1996 | Italy | 13 (0) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Gianluigi Lentini (born March 27, 1969 in Carmagnola ) is a former Italian football player .
Career
By moving from Torino Calcio to AC Milan in 1992, Lentini temporarily had the reputation of the most expensive footballer in the world. The transfer fee of 18.5 billion lire , which was unbelievable at the time , which came about through an immense poker for the favor of the player between Milan and Juventus Turin , triggered a development in European football in the 1990s in which ever higher sums for the change of a player was paid to another club. Even the Vatican got involved in the discussion about Lentini's move to AC Milan in 1992 and described the payment of such a horrific sum for a single football player as "indecent".
In his first season, 1992/93 , Gianluigi Lentini came 30 times for the Milanese and won the Italian championship . The year 1993 also brought a radical break in his career from which he could never recover as an athlete. He suffered severe head injuries in a car accident and even fell into a coma for a short time .
In the following years he rarely played for Milan . His Substitutes shortly before the final whistle in the Champions League Finals in 1995 , the last peak in Lentinis career was. He was then with Atalanta Bergamo (1996/97), Torino Calcio (1997-2000), Cosenza (2001-2004) and AS Canelli (2004-2008) under contract. He then played for ASD Saviglianese Calcio (2008/09) and from 2009 for AC Nicese.
Web links
- Gianluigi Lentini in the database of weltfussball.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ UEFA homepage . Retrieved August 7, 2015
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Lentini, Gianluigi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 27, 1969 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Carmagnola |